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Stations are getting creative in order to distribute coverage of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: Post-Newsweek's KPRC, WKMG Orlando and WJXT Jacksonville are sharing reporting, and so are Tribune Company's WGNO New Orleans, sister stations and Local TV stations. WEAR Pensacola is redistributing content throughout the Sinclair group, while Fox affiliates WVUE New Orleans and WALA Mobile are sharing content.

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Five local broadcast stations have been honored for their coverage by the 2014 duPont-Columbia Awards. The local winners are KMGH in Denver, KSHB in Kansas City, Mo., WBZ in Boston, WFAA in Dallas and WVUE in New Orleans. CBS News and NBC News also were honored.

Summer Winter Action Tours Travel, a large travel firm in California that specializes in student-break travel, says thousands of its student clients will head to Palm Springs rather than Baja California. "Many of our existing customers and their families are concerned as a result of the recent Mexico travel warnings issued by various government agencies," said Thomas Jaenichen, owner of the agency.

Mexican officials have questioned the findings of a recent U.S. investigation that discovered a Salmonella saintpaul strain at a pepper farm in Nuevo Leon, saying U.S. authorities "totally lacked scientific evidence" to make certain claims about the case. "We're eating this same produce in Mexico and we haven't had any problems," the director of Mexico's Farm Food Quality Service said.

Mexican officials have questioned the findings of a recent U.S. investigation that discovered a Salmonella saintpaul strain at a pepper farm in Nuevo Leon, saying U.S. authorities "totally lacked scientific evidence" to make certain claims about the case. "We're eating this same produce in Mexico and we haven't had any problems," the director of Mexico's Farm Food Quality Service said.

Mexico announced Thursday it has created a new federal post that will focus on protecting the rights of women, children and other vulnerable groups such as migrants. The official, who has yet to be appointed, will tackle issues such as child labor and the killings of hundreds of women that have taken place in recent years near the U.S. border.